Summer Farewell Poems

My average means I don’t have to take final exams.
So my bachelor's degree is a finished product.
I cranked it out, all that’s left now is...

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summer winds softly
softly tear at the tissue
of sinking sunsets....

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I left the old me on the South Carolina sand.
The naive, sensitive, fragile girl stayed on that land.
I signed my life away for a greater...

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Water drips from the tree limb in winter
And I watched the grapes multiplying on the vine
My heart is crying out for spring but
Summer is when...

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      Bronx cheers, muffled in December
        ‘The Boys of Summer’ have vanished
 ...

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I sit here in this secluded place, hoping that Santa would knock on my gate, but every wind that blows drifts my boat further away...

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Falling Autumn leaves brashly wave goodbye to Summer
And strew the pathways with emeralds, rubies, and gold.
Radiant beauty engages the land in mummer
Encouraging Summer to relent...

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They gather on the sandy shore-
confused and squawking as they stray.
Their former meals are seen no more;
from side to side, they look each way.

Confused and...

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palmlike branches sway
in a late august breeze
as the afternoon sun languishes

the waiter brings my glass
of sauvignon blanc
and i feel decadent
alone at a table for four
just...

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They say it's in the wind
 restless teases and taunts that seasons are in flux
 an escape out of the summer's endless rush,

hush now, if...

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Salmon skies rise in the peripheral east
Steely clouds linger then slowly dissipate
Nightfall wanes, as the wide blue canvas brightens
Light lifts the mood, on a summer’s...

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KEY: N-Neighbor

"An armless heart steals the pause that a calming reveals," ... by The Poet

He said his peace then looked at his timepiece
like he's forgotten
supine...

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Beneath the sprawling blush of dawn, our feet became one
with the sands of Kiawah Island, grains glistening like scattered stars,
each a tiny sunburst caught in...

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I am writing these letters to someone who no longer exists for me and if she ever did, she is lost somewhere in a past...

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They cannot come to an agreement on how to solve the ground dove’s problem, all the birds are flying around picking at the feather in...

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